Augustus welby northmore pugin biography sampler

&#;PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE (–), architect, ecclesiologist, and writer, born on 1 March at 34 Store Street, Bedford Square, was son of Augustus Charles Pugin [q. v.], from whom he received his training as an architect and inherited a remarkable facility in draughtsmanship.

After being educated at Christ's Hospital as a private student, he joined his father's pupils, and for two or three &#;years assisted his work as an archæologist, architect, and illustrator. In his thirteenth year he was sufficiently advanced to accompany his father on an architectural visit to Paris; and a drawing of Christ Church, Hampshire (reproduced in Ferrey's ‘Recollections’), testifies to his precocious powers of sketching.

In he was engaged in making investigations and drawings of Rochester Castle, and in the following year was taken ill from overwork while sketching in the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Paris. After assistin